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Dr. the Nottoway Indians in acct. with Henry Taylor, John Thomas Blow, Thomas Blunt, & Edwin Gray, their trustees account, 1774 Jan

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Open book Dr. the Nottoway Indians in acct. with Henry Taylor, John Thomas Blow, Thomas Blunt, & Edwin Gray, their trustees account, 1774 Jan

Title Dr. the Nottoway Indians in acct. with Henry Taylor, John Thomas Blow, Thomas Blunt, & Edwin Gray, their trustees account, 1774 Jan

Creator Gray, Edwin, b. 1743

Date 1774

Place Virginia, Virginia--Southampton County

Language English

Subjects Indians of North America, Leases, Nottaway Indians, Real property

Description Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Endorsement on verso: Nottoways Indians Accots with their Trustees, for 1773 & 1774.
For more information, consult the Special Collections Info. File.

Summary Account, Jan., 1774, in the handwriting of Nottaway trustee Edwin Gray, who signed the document, itemizing payments to members of the tribe for the rental of their lands during 1773. Among the Indians receiving shares of the total sum (£74-4-6) were members of the Gabriel, Quaker, Woodson, John, Pearch, Scholar, Roger, Step, Meriot, Wincoke, and Turner families.

Biographical/Historical Note The Nottaway Indians moved to Southampton County, Va., in 1694, and were restricted by a 1705 legislative act to two large tracts in the area. Burdened with debt, the Nottaways first petitioned the Virginia legislature in 1734 for the right to sell their property. In 1772 the legislature, responding to another Nottaway petition, passed "An act to enable the Nottoway Indians to lease certain lands ...." This act provided for the appointment of Henry Taylor and Edwin Gray, both Southampton County burgesses, and John Thomas Blow and Thomas Blunt, also of Southampton County, as trustees to oversee the lease of tribal lands on the south side of the Nottoway River. The act also instructed the trustees to account with the county court every January and to direct the proceeds in "such manner as they ... shall think most advantageous to the said Indians."

Extent 1 item (1 leaf) ; 39 cm

Format Accounts, Manuscripts

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

Link to Catalog View record

Call Number Ayer MS 3212

BibID 143406

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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